Introduction:

Alibaba Cloud is positioned into the Leaders category, ranking second in the current offering category and first in the strategy category. It receives the highest score possible of 5 in 19 out of 25 evaluation criteria, making it one of two vendors with the highest number of 5/5 scores.

12 AI platform service vendors in China have been included in this report, evaluating them across two main categories: Current Offering and Strategy.

These primarily correspond to Alibaba Cloud's DataWorks, PAI, and Model Studio product capabilities.

Forrester’s take. Alibaba Cloud best suits enterprises that want a full-stack AI- native cloud platform with a broad cloud ecosystem, open-source commitment, and a global footprint.

Alibaba Cloud, through DataWorks and PAI, demonstrates excellence in data integration, data augmentation, data discovery, and governance. For model development, evaluation, inference, deployment, and governance, Alibaba Cloud provides outstanding capabilities via PAI and the Model Studio. Alibaba Cloud also performs exceptionally well in application acceleration, application management, platform performance, and ecosystem.

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